The war has already started.

[kentuck]

Bombs are falling. People are dying. Countries are drawing lines. Diplomats are talking.

It's easy to start a war. As we know from recent experience, it is much more difficult to stop one.

War is seldom easy, especially when another country has powerful allies, such as Syria. Iran and Russian have been supporting them for years. This is not Grenada.

There seems to be minimal criticism on this side of the waters?

[graham4anything]

1. The republican party extremists need to be voted out of office. Straight Democratic only

Iraq was a mistake
Other wars however were not.

[alsame]

2. ROFL, here are the Democratic Senators who voted

to invade Iraq.

Baucus (D-MT), Yea
Bayh (D-IN), Yea
Biden (D-DE), Yea
Breaux (D-LA), Yea
Cantwell (D-WA), Yea
Carnahan (D-MO), Yea
Carper (D-DE), Yea
Cleland (D-GA), Yea
Clinton (D-NY), Yea
Daschle (D-SD), Yea
Dodd (D-CT), Yea
Dorgan (D-ND), Yea
Edwards (D-NC), Yea
Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
Harkin (D-IA), Yea
Hollings (D-SC), Yea
Johnson (D-SD), Yea
Kerry (D-MA), Yea
Kohl (D-WI), Yea
Landrieu (D-LA), Yea
Lieberman (D-CT), Yea
Lincoln (D-AR), Yea
Miller (D-GA), Yea
Nelson (D-FL), Yea
Nelson (D-NE), Yea
Reid (D-NV), Yea
Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea
Schumer (D-NY), Yea
Torricelli (D-NJ), Yea

[graham4anything]

3. so? just another slam against the democratic party on a democratic board

none of that has anything to do with what I said

Maybe one should put the names of the 3000 who died on 9-11 and then say Afghanastan was bad and wrong.

99.9999999999% of everyone voted for Afghanastan

And Truman and Kennedy started Vietnam which could have ended in 1968 without the dirty tricks later discovered by Nixon.

[alsame]

4. Voting 'straight Democratic' is no guarantee that

we won't enter illegal and unnecessary wars, as the Iraq vote shows.

Since when is printing the Senate roll call considered a 'slam'?

[graham4anything]

5. but it will get back the house. Voting for republicans/3rd party will get us another Iraq

and if you are printing a roll call, what about the republicans?

[bhikkhu]

6. Its about as close a guarantee as you can get

things could change, but I don't see that mistake happening again in my lifetime. Except if the repugs are back in charge.